Yoko Kanno

Known for: Sound

Born: March 17, 1963 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yoko Kanno (菅野よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.

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Yoko Kanno

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Memories of Memories

Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan

Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan

Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo

Future Blues

Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

Kamikaze Girls

Ashura

Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

I Can’t Study

Noiseman Sound Insect

Memories

Our Little Sister

Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

tokyo.sora

Macross Plus: The Movie

Escaflowne: The Movie

Genius Party